◄ 3645. Kemosh or Kemish ► |
Lexicon Kemosh or Kemish: a god of the Moabites Original Word: כְּמִישׁPart of Speech: Proper Name Transliteration: Kemosh or Kemish Phonetic Spelling: (kem-oshe') Short Definition: Chemosh NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona god of the Moabites NASB TranslationChemosh (8).
Brown-Driver-Briggs כְּמוֺשׁ proper name, of a divinity Chemosh ( כמש MI 3. 5. 9. 12. 13. 14. 18. 19. 32. 23 also עשתר כמש Jeremiah 1:17 and proper name, masculine כמשמלך Jeremiah 1:1; Assyrian Kammusunadbi, a king of Moab Schr COT i, 281; = KAT 2, 288; compare further Bae Rel 13 f. 238, 256 Nö ZMG 1888, 471; ᵐ5 Ξαμώς); — god of the Moabites to whom Solomon erected a high place 1 Kings 11:7,33; 2 Kings 23:13; Jeremiah 48:7 (Kt כמישׁ), Jeremiah 48:13. Moab is ׳עַםכֿ Numbers 21:29 (ode) people of Chemosh, and Moabites his sons and daughters, compare Jeremiah 48:46. He is said to be also the God of the Ammonites Judges 11:25 (probably an error Bae Rel 15 GFM). כמז (√ of following; meaning dubious; Arabic is bunch, heap). כמישׁ Jeremiah 48:7 Kt, see כְּמוֺשׁ. above כמן (√ of following (si vera l); perhaps be hidden; compare Aramaic כְּמַן, , lie in ambush; Arabic id. is denominative from loan-word according to Frä243).
Strong's Chemosh Or (Jer. 48:7) Kmiysh {kem-eesh'}; from an unused root meaning to subdue; the powerful; Kemosh, the god of the Moabites -- Chemosh. |
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